Wallace Stevens (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Biography

Wallace Stevens was born on October 2, 1879, to Garrett and Margarethe Stevens in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father's law practice was sufficient to support the large family, which included Stevens's older brother, younger brother, and two sisters, but not as well as Garrett Stevens would have wished. Constantly working to supply his family's needs, he transferred to the young Wallace Stevens his sense that a man's primary responsibility was to do well materially and support his family adequately. His mother, a strongly Christian woman who belonged to the Dutch...

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